Valentine’s Gingerbread House

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Last year we made our very first Valentine gingerbread house. I had intended to do one for every holiday, but I kind of forgot. I want to do it this year, and I even bought up a bunch of gingerbread houses when they went on sale at Michael’s for $2.99. After our colossal Christmas gingerbread house failure, you’d figure I’d give up, but that’s not our style. A friend of mine wrote me saying she had a recipe she grew up using that holds really firm, so I was able to get her recipe. It worked. I still had to hold the roof on for a while until my husband figured out how to prop it up with a deck of cards. It’s still standing though, so I call that a success.

We purchased an array of red, pink and purple candy.

We made the roof out of Nibs. I think they look a lot like roof tiles. I had set out all the candy options, and this was their choice. It’s a smart choice, I think.